Molecular biogeography of the Mediterranean Buthus species complex (Scorpiones: Buthidae) at its southern Palaearctic margin

R Klesser, M Husemann, T Schmitt… - Biological Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Neogene orogenesis and climatic cycles strongly influenced inter-and intraspecific
differentiation and variability of taxa. In this study, we focused on the southern margin of the …

Phylogeography of Buthus Leach, 1815 (Scorpiones: Buthidae): a multigene molecular approach reveals a further complex evolutionary history in the Maghreb

D Pedroso, P Sousa, D James Harris… - African …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The distribution of the scorpion genus Buthus Leach, 1815 includes southwestern Europe,
North and Central Africa and extends east towards the Arabian Peninsula. Phylogenetic …

Dated phylogeny and ancestral range estimation of sand scorpions (Buthidae: Buthacus) reveal Early Miocene divergence across land bridges connecting Africa and …

S Cain, SF Loria, R Ben-Shlomo, L Prendini… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Sand scorpions of the genus Buthacus Birula, 1908 (Buthidae CL Koch, 1837) are
widespread in the sandy deserts of the Palearctic region, occurring from the Atlantic coast of …

Evolution of Mesobuthus gibbosus (Brullé, 1832) (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in the northeastern Mediterranean region

A Parmakelis, I Stathi, M Chatzaki… - Molecular …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Sequence data derived from two mitochondrial markers, 16S rRNA and COI genes, were
used to infer the evolutionary history of 47 insular and mainland populations covering most …

Evolution and Radiation in the Scorpion Buthus elmoutaouakili Lourenço and Qi 2006 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) at the Foothills of the Atlas Mountains (North Africa)

M Husemann, T Schmitt, I Stathi, JC Habel - Journal of Heredity, 2012 - academic.oup.com
When low dispersal ability of an organism meets geographical barriers, the evolution of inter-
and intraspecific differentiation is often facilitated. In the Atlas massif of North Africa, the …

Genetic diversity within scorpions of the genus Buthus from the Iberian Peninsula: mitochondrial DNA sequence data indicate additional distinct cryptic lineages

P Sousa, E Froufe, PC Alves, DJ Harris - The Journal of Arachnology, 2010 - BioOne
Abstract Historically Buthus occitanus (Amoreux 1789) was recognized as the sole species
of the genus present in the Iberian Peninsula, but recent morphological studies have …

Phylogeography of Androctonus species (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in Tunisia: Diagnostic characters for linking species to scorpionism

AB Othmen, K Said, SS Mahamdallie, JM Testa… - Acta Tropica, 2009 - Elsevier
A fragment of the mitochondrial (mt) 16S ribosomal RNA gene was amplified by PCR and
sequenced from individual adult scorpions of the genus Androctonus, which were sampled …

The genetic population structure of Buthus occitanus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) across the Strait of Gibraltar: calibrating a molecular clock using nuclear allozyme …

B Gantenbein - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2004 - academic.oup.com
I assess here the importance of the Strait of Gibraltar as a barrier to gene flow for
populations of the scorpion Buthus occitanus. This polytypic buthid scorpion occurs in …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular and morphological evidence for the presence of a new buthid taxon (Scorpiones: Buthidae) on the island of Cyprus

B Gantenbein, C Kropf, CR Largiader… - Revue suisse de …, 2000 - researchgate.net
zyme data (16 loci) from Mesobuthus gibbosus populations in the eastern Mediterranean
region show that the Cyprus population is highly distinct, although morphological …

Microallopatry Caused Strong Diversification in Buthus scorpions (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in the Atlas Mountains (NW Africa)

JC Habel, M Husemann, T Schmitt, FE Zachos… - PLoS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The immense biodiversity of the Atlas Mountains in North Africa might be the result of high
rates of microallopatry caused by mountain barriers surpassing 4000 meters leading to …